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For Medicare Part D (drugs), the cash shortfall was over $59 billion. To balance this deficit, seniors’ premiums for prescription drugs would need to increase by 871 percent, meaning the annual drug-premium cost to seniors would rise from $372 to $3,250 — an increase of $2,878.

Thank George W. Bush for this one.

4 posted on 04/25/2012 4:29:18 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (Romney vs. Obama? One of them has to lose, rejoice in that fact, whichever it is.)
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And a GOP controlled Congress. Funny how so few around FR remember those kinds of details.


8 posted on 05/05/2012 4:31:35 PM PDT by KantianBurke (Where was the Tea Party when Dubya was spending like a drunken sailor?)
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